Method qe elevating water



C. C. BOMBERGER,.OF NVE-ST CARLISLE," OHIO.

METHOD 0E :ELEVA'IIEIIN"(S-v WATER.

Speccatonof Letters llyatent,NmV 25,879, datedOctober 25, 1859.i

To all whom t concern:

Be it known that I, C. G. BOMBERGER, of'

Westl Carlisle, in the county of Coshocton and State of Ohio, have invented-a new and useful hydraulic device forelevating water and communicating a force thereto for the conveyance of the same to certain points or for the propulsion of machinery; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of this specification, said drawing being a vertical central section of my invention.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention I will proceed to describe it.

A, represents a bent tube or pipe the lower end of which extends down into the well or reservoir B, from which the water is to be raised the lower end of said pipe having a valve ax, within it opening upward. The upper end of tube A, extends down within an air-tight box C, nearly to its bottom, the end of A, being open. From the lower part of the box C, a bent tube D, projects. The lower part of this tube is horizontal and is provided at its end with a valve a, opening upward. The lower part of the tube D, is within an open vessel E, which is above an air-tight box F, the two air-tight boxes C, F, communicating with each other at their upper parts by means of a pipe G.

H, is a tube within the box F. The upper end of this tube H, communicates with the open vessel E, and the lower end is provided with a valve b, opening upward. The stem of the valve b, is attached to a lever I, having its fulcrum at c. The outer end of lever I, is bent upward and it has a float J, attached to it.

K, L, are two bent levers having their fulcra at d, e, provided respectively with floats M, N, at their upper ends and having slide bolts f, g, attached at or near their lower ends, said bolts serving to lock the lever I, in its two dierent positions. This will be more fully explained hereafter. To the lever I, the stem r, of a valve O, is attached. This valve O, is in the upper part of the discharge pipe P, which communicates with the lower part of the box F.

Q, is a small pipe which communicates with the upper part of the pipe P, and the lower part of box F.

The operation is as follows: The box F, is

lfilled or nearly vfilled through tube H with water-and when full or nearly full'the float M, is buoyed up sothat the leverA K, will drawback the bolt f. The floatJ, will also be actuated or-buoyed upso that ythe lever I, will close the valve Z), at the bottom of tube H, as soon as the bolt f is withdrawn the valve O, will open as b closes, the lever I, being retained in its latter position by bolt g, which was actuated by the float N, as the water rose in F. When the valve O, is opened the water in F, will pass through the pipe Q, and down pipe P, and as the water in F, descends the space above it will be filled with air from box C, through pipe Gr. The displacement of the air in C, will of course cause the water in the well B, to raise valve ax, and pass up pipe A, 4and fill box C. When the box F, is empty the float N, will by its own gravity actuate the lever L, and bolt g, the latter releasing the lever I, so that it may by its own gravity and that of its float raise the valve Z), and close valve O, the lever K, also being moved so that its bolt f, will pass under the lever I, and retain the valve in an open state. When the valve b is open, water passes down the tube H, from the open vessel E, which is supplied from C, and the air in F, as F, fillsv with water is forced back into C, said air forcing the water from O, into E. When the vessel F, is again filled the floats M, J, N, are consecutively actuated by the water owing to their buoyancy, the valve closed and O, opened so that the water will escape down P, as before.

The discharge pipe P, it will be seen extends below the well or reservoir B, and consequently the principle of the siphon is included in the invention. But by having the siphon parted and connected by the air-tight boxes C, F, and pipe G, I am enabled to obtain what may be termed a head in F, and the water will be discharged from P, with a force due to its height from the lower end of P, to the level in F, whereas if an ordinary Siphon were employed, the water would be discharged from P, with a force due only to the excess of the length of the longer leg over the shorter one.

By using two devices and having the water discharged alternately a continuous stream may be discharged, with one device the water is discharged intermittently.

I do not confine myself to the precise arrangement of parts or means employed for actuating the valves b, O. Itis necessary of course that said valves be operated automatically and floats may be connected to levers and arranged in various Ways to eect the purpose, but the Within described means Would probably be as good as any.

It Will be understood that the pipe A, is of such height that the Water may be forced into C, by atmospheric pressure, but the device may be used in Wells deeper than 33 feet by placing box C, in the Well Within 33 feet from the Water and having a column of Water above boX F, of sulicient height to balance the column in the Well above C.

purpose set forth.

C. C. BOMBERGER. Witnesses:

P. J. CUMMING, J. L. CARROTHER. 

